Hi everyone,

I remember that during the New-York convention last fall, some issues were brought by a student member about the authoring of Blu-ray discs and their outrageous prices for authoring software and the such.

I know that some of us are really looking forward to have our clients use the pinnacle of today's technology for their product and would like to have our mixes down on the most hi-fi audio sources available.

Well, just to let everyone know, DTS is trying hard to get that done, but for now, their isn't any cheap way of having that done ourselves. I have found some Blu-ray authoring software that encodes and do the whole process chain all the way up to burning the BD, but they aren't cheap. Follow the link if you are interested.

http://www.netblender.com/main/products/products-overview/dsa-or-dsw/

All the best, see you all in London in May and don't be shy to come talk to me at the student delegate meetings, I'll be there and available.

Post edited by: philip.parenteau, at: 2009/12/12 18:17

You can build bluray with some free java software. You can also use PCM in place of other licensed codec.
So with Bluray you can build your own multichannel music/video for FREE.
It's not easy but it's possible, you have to program yourself or find some code already made.

You can find information there : http://hdcookbook.com/

There was a tutorial on that subject at the workshop W18 - Blu-ray—The Next (And Only?) Chance for High Resolution Music Media at Munich http://www.aes.org/events/126/workshops/session.cfm?code=W18

The company http://www.2l.no/ make the authoring of their recording with their own Java code. And their authoring is very creative : you can use your bluray player without screen like a simple cd player, and much more things...